Personal Defense Tip: Develop Your Own Tactical Checklist

By Sal Navarro Being “tactical” is a way of life, not an ethereal concept or happenstance occurrence. And just for the record, it has nothing at all to do with wearing the right cargo pants or boots. Rather, it means having a plan well in advance of a dynamic, critical incident and putting that plan … Read more

We Need to Put a Big ‘I Did That’ Biden Sticker On Every Gun Sales Report

Americans have been buying a lot of guns. The figure is in the tens of millions. It might be time to get one of the gas pump stickers of President Joe Biden saying, “I did that.” After all, it is his failing policies that are driving many to take up lawful gun ownership. The Biden … Read more

Florida Woman Holds Intruder at Gunpoint for 13 Minutes Waiting for Police

Piers Morgan may wonder why Americans own firearms, but unlike his countrymen, we have a right to do so. And many of us realize that we are our own first responders. Whether it’s an un-armed Brit bobbie or a Pasco County, Florida deputy, Johnny Law will almost never be there in time to protect you … Read more

The Smallest Minority Will Always Be the Individual

In the United States and around the world, minorities of all kinds have been, and continue to be, oppressed, marginalized, attacked, and discriminated against. This oppression takes many forms, some on a macro institutional level, some on a micro individual level. While we work to slowly but surely make progress on the institutional level, we need … Read more

TTAG Daily Digest: Eleven Minutes, Incorporating Freedom and the New #MeToo

Eleven Minutes Because a cop is too heavy to carry . . . (D)espite the fact I believe mass shootings are symptomatic of a larger societal problem that has little to do with guns themselves, it was a hard point to argue in the wake of tragedy without sounding trite and callous. Then the tragedy … Read more

Self Defense and the Realities of Police Response Times

  I enjoy driving. It provides time for reflection. It reminds me of the beauty and uniqueness of America. I recently took a brief vacation, driving from Texas to Wyoming, South Dakota and back. My trip reminded me, in stark terms, of the sheer size of our country; of the realities of time and distance. … Read more